The Bishop of the Free State, the Rt Rev E Patrick “Paddy” Glover, has been appointed Dean of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.On Nov 7, the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev Thabo Makgoba announced that Bishop Glover had been appointed to the church’s number two post following the untimely death of the Bishop of the Highveld, the Rt Rev David Beetge from cancer last month.
Elected suffragan bishop in 1993 and diocesan bishop in 1996 of the Diocese of Bloemfontein (now called the Diocese of the Free State), Bishop Glover was educated at Rhodes University in South Africa and took an honours degree in theology at Keble College, Oxford.
He served as a parish priest and college chaplain in South Africa prior to his consecration, and in 1974 spent a year on staff of St Marylebone Parish Church, Regents Park, London.
Bishop Glover is president of the board of trustees of the College of the Transfiguration, South Africa’s residential clergy training college, and has been active in the work of the South African church’s education, broadcasting and in the mission to seamen in Southern Africa. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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